Donald Kimelman

Senior Vice President
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Don Kimelman manages Pew's information initiatives, which are largely carried out by the internationally renowned Pew Research Center. The research center, based in Washington DC, produces timely reports on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It takes no positions on policy issues. In addition, Mr. Kimelman oversees the Philadelphia Program, which includes Pew’s Culture program, its Philadelphia-based Civic Initiatives, the Pew Fund for Health and Human Services and the Philadelphia Research Initiative, which produces timely research on key issues facing the city.

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David Becker

Director, Election Initiatives
The Pew Charitable Trusts

David Becker is director of Election Initiatives for Pew. He supervises work in election administration, including research and reform efforts to improve military and overseas voting; assess election performance through better data; use technology to provide voters with information they need to cast a ballot; and upgrade voter registration systems.

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Jessica Donze Black

Director, Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Jessica Donze Black is the director for the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project. As such, she advises research and policy efforts aimed at improving school nutrition.

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Michael G. Caudell-Feagan

Senior Director, Programs, Government Performance
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Michael Caudell-Feagan manages state advocacy campaigns and policy initiatives. This portfolio includes the Children’s Dental Health Campaign, Election Initiatives, Home Visiting Campaign, Public Safety Performance Project, and the Results First project.

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Lee Crockett

Director, U.S. Fisheries Campaigns
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Lee Crockett joined Pew in June 2007 as director of Federal Fisheries Policy.

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Phyllis Cuttino

Director, Clean Energy
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Phyllis Cuttino is director of Pew’s Clean Energy Program, which works to accelerate the clean energy economy in order to seize its economic, national security and environmental benefits for the nation. Pew advocates for national energy policies that enhance industrial energy efficiency, expand energy research and development and deploy advanced transportation and renewable technologies.

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Libby Doggett

Director, Home Visiting
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Libby Doggett is director of the Home Visiting Campaign at Pew. The campaign partners with state policy makers and other leaders to promote effective state policies and investments in quality, home-based programs for new and expectant families.

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Sandra Eskin

Director, Food Safety
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Sandra Eskin is the director of the Food Safety Campaign. The campaign seeks to reduce health risks from foodborne pathogens by strengthening federal government authority and the enforcement of food safety laws.

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Shelly Gehshan

Director, Children's Dental Health
The Pew Charitable Trusts

As director of the Pew Children’s Dental Campaign, Shelly Gehshan supervises the project’s work with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid, sealant programs, community water fluoridation and the dental workforce.

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Polita Glynn

Director, Pew Marine Fellows Program
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Polita Glynn joined Pew in 2009 as manager of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, which provides fellowships to outstanding natural and social scientists, researchers and others around the globe to support innovative projects aimed at developing and implementing solutions to critical challenges facing the world’s oceans.

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Michelle Grady

Director, Oceans and Western Australia
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Michelle Grady joined Pew in 2008 as manager of the Outback Australia Program. Grady has worked for 18 years as a conservation advocate at the local, national and international levels; a managing director of nonprofit organizations; and campaign manager and senior policy adviser to government.

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Marilyn Heiman

Director, U.S. Arctic
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Marilyn Heiman joined Pew in January 2009 as director of the U.S. Arctic Program, which works to protect the U.S. Arctic Ocean and its marine life from rapid industrialization made possible by the warming climate and the melting ice cap.

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Kil Huh

Director, State and Local Fiscal Health
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Kil Huh is director of the State and Local Fiscal Health project, which conducts in-depth research to better understand the factors contributing to state budget woes and budget shortfalls. The project also provides critical insights as state policy makers seek to navigate a difficult fiscal landscape in the years to come.

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Andrea Kavanagh

Senior Officer, Southern Ocean Sanctuaries
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Andrea Kavanagh is a Senior Officer for the Southern Ocean Sanctuaries campaign, a project dedicated to conserving the most intact marine ecosystem on the planet. Kavanagh joined Pew in January 2008, as manager of the Marine Aquaculture Campaign and later managed the Antarctic Krill Conservation Project, and the Protecting the Deep Sea Campaign.

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Susan Lieberman

Senior Director, International Environmental Policy
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Susan Lieberman joined Pew in August 2009 and serves as deputy director of international environment policy. She leads an integrated program focused on treaties, regional fisheries management organizations and other intergovernmental organizations to achieve Pew’s marine conservation goals.

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Christopher Mann

Director, Environment
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Christopher Mann joined Pew in 2007 and leads projects to develop science-based, precautionary standards for marine aquaculture and to advance federal legislation, implementing recommendations of the Pew Oceans Commission for ecosystem-based management of U.S. ocean waters.

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Amanda Nickson

Director, Global Tuna Conservation
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Amanda Nickson joined Pew in 2010 to lead advocacy efforts with regional fisheries management organizations, the international bodies that govern the treaties regulating commercial fishing on the high seas.

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Anita Pepper

Director, Biomedical Programs
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Anita Pepper directs the Pew Programs in the Biomedical Sciences.

Anita graduated from Cornell University and received her master’s degree in Molecular Systematics from New York University and the New York Botanical Gardens. She was awarded her doctorate in Developmental Genetics from New York University. From 2003 to 2008, she completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Tom Jongens at the University of Pennsylvania studying a genetically inherited form of mental retardation, Fragile X syndrome. In 2008, she decided to use her scientific background outside of academia and joined the Pew programs in the biomedical sciences.

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Ken Rait

Director, U.S. Public Lands
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ken Rait became the Director of the Western Lands Initiative in September 2011. Rait is the former director of the Heritage Forests Campaign, an initiative that successfully advocated for the conservation of nearly 60 million acres of roadless, wild national forestlands.

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Tom Rosenstiel

Founder and Director
Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism

Tom Rosenstiel is the founder and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.  He is the former executive director and current vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a national conversation among journalists about standards and values.

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Ingrid Schroeder

Director, Fiscal Federalism Initiatives
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ingrid Schroeder oversees Pew’s efforts to provide independent and unbiased data on the health of the federal budget and its long-term sustainability. The research also examines the effects of a variety of fiscal policies to inform the debate on current, pressing concerns and to increase fiscal accountability, responsibility, and transparency.

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Karen Steuer

Senior Director, Government Relations
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Karen Steuer joined Pew in 2008 and directs government relations activity for all environmental projects.

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Barry Traill

Director, Outback Australia
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Barry Traill joined Pew in 2007 as director of Outback Australia, a joint program of Pew and the Nature Conservancy. He works with partner organizations to obtain protection for large wilderness areas in Australia on land and sea.

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Gary VanLandingham

Director, Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative
The Pew Charitable Trusts

As director of the Results First initiative at Pew, Gary VanLandingham manages Pew’s work to advance the use of cost-benefit analysis and to cultivate a climate for evidence-based decision-making that can enable states to eliminate ineffective programs and shift resources to those that generate the best outcomes.

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Susan K. Weinstock

Director, Safe Checking
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Susan K. Weinstock is the director for Pew’s Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project, an initiative that advocates for policies that inform American checking accountholders.

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Thomas Wheatley

Manager, U.S. Oceans
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Tom Wheatley joined Pew in August 2009 as manager of the Gulf Surface Longline Campaign.

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Imogen Zethoven

Director, Global Ocean Legacy
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Imogen Zethoven joined Pew in 2007 as project manager for the Coral Sea Campaign and, two years later, became director of the program to establish the world’s largest fully protected marine park.

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